True Hollywood Story – Otis

Who knew that a guinea pig looking dog found in a dumpster would one day be discovered and make it big:
http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/blogs-we-dig-reddogknit/
Jules from Absolute Michigan contacted us to be featured and is also flirting with becoming a new knitting recruit.  In my efforts to attain world peace and warm up the world, my mission is going [...]

One Workout with a Side of Fried Eggs Please

Oh my little Scrappy looking so sweet and innocent in his handknits (sweater courtesy of blogless Betsy and socks by Larjmarj who also has an amazing talent of jewlery making – thanks for my earings!) and yet his little nugget plots our demise into insanity.
For years attempting to have children, then with the pregnancy and [...]

First FO of 2007

Monkey Socks, originally uploaded by reddogknits.
Because this IS a knitting blog and I have to toss some in here and there to still qualify as a knitting blog – I present to you my first and potentially only knitting FO of 2007!!!  Here is a closeup.
Pattern: Monkey Socks from Knitty’s Winter 2006, Designed by Cookie [...]

Bound Up

Gangles and Handknits, originally uploaded by reddogknits.
This little man is a different person this morning. Besides donning gorgeous handknits for his 2 month doctor check-up (sweater made by Kelly and socks by Julie), he’s his happy smiley self. Yesterday, he emitted hours and hours of bloody murder screams that were finally resolved by the action [...]

Bloggers Unite

Knitter Bunny, originally uploaded by reddogknits.
Well, it finally happened – Kelli of Knitter Bunny and host of the Dutchican Virtual Shower and I reunited in real life. Otis was quite fond of her and insisted on a photo to add to his portfolio. Face to face conversation which included a nice short-row tutorial on a [...]

Ball Winder For Hire

Hooray for Neck Control, originally uploaded by reddogknits.
See this picture? These two beings which are only capable of holding their necks erect for mere seconds and can’t change, feed, or even be mobile have successfully sucked the living sanity out of two adults, two dogs, and two cats. I even think our fish are looking [...]

Gas and Poop – You Knew This Post Would Come Eventually

Full Hands, originally uploaded by reddogknits.

My girlfriend is still in town and is flirting with the idea of becoming a new knitting recruit – she lives in NYC around the block from a LYS and the fiber fumes must have enticed her. Her hands are full either with a baby or a fur kid (or [...]

ssk

MMMMM…I Love you SSK!
Here’s my Ariann Progress (excuse dog arse under pic) – still playing by the rules and still hitting gauge (pat on back) and love love loving this pattern – not because of it’s fabulous shaping, the yarn and color, the challenging but yet easily memorized repeat pattern, but because of my favorite [...]

And the Winner Is….

Tsk..Tsk…not ONE of you got the right answer, not ONE! I have discovered the answer to colic and crankiness and all of you are just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz – you had the answer all along…right under your noses needles. And you call yourself a bunch of fiber enthusiasts – sheesh! 83 [...]

Monkey On My Back

Where else can you have a total yarn ho pimping fiber, hear about a woman who didn’t get a volunteer job working with grieving children because her self-confessed weakness is that she has a hard time with people crying and who also has magnificent balls (of yarn of course), listen to a newbie grandma sing [...]